Equity, Diversity and Inclusion External Review Committee

As an eligibility requirement of the program, all institutions with five or more chair allocations were required, as of 2017, to develop and implement an equity, diversity and inclusion action plan following the programs’s requirements. The Equity, Diversity and Inclusion External Review Committee was mandated to formally peer review the institutional equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) action plans and evaluate whether the program’s requirements were met. See more information on the results of the formal review process.

The Canada Research Chairs Program would like to sincerely thank each committee member for their invaluable service to the program and their willingness to share their time and expertise in the peer review process.

Committee members, 2018-21
Name Role Institution Title
Malinda Smith Chairperson University of Calgary Professor, Political Science; Vice-Provost, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Catherine Beaudry Member Polytechnique Montréal Professor; Canada Research Chair in Creation, Development and the Commercialization of Innovation
Tanya Brann-Barrett Member Cape Breton University Associate Vice-President, Academic and Research; Associate Professor of Communication
Karlee Fellner Member University of Calgary Associate Professor, Werklund
School of Education
Shohini Ghose Member Wilfrid Laurier University Professor, Physics and Computer Science; NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering; Director, Centre for Women in Science (WinS); Past President, Canadian Association of Physicists
Michael Hendricks Member McGill University Assistant Professor of Biology; Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology and Behaviour
Edward Ou Jin Lee Member Université de Montréal Associate Professor, School of Social Work,
co-holder, Jean-Monbourquette Chair for the Social Support for Bereaved People
Krista Geneviève Lynes Member Concordia University Associate Professor, Communication Studies;
Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies;
Director, Feminist Media Studio
Brenda MacDougall Member University of Ottawa Associate Professor; Chair in Métis Research
Lance McCready Member University of Toronto Associate Professor,
Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Ravi Menon Member Western University Professor; Research Scientist; Centre of Functional and Metabolic Mapping; Co-Scientific Director, BrainsCAN; Canada Research Chair in Functional and Molecular Imaging
Rebecca Pillai Riddell Member York University Professor; Associate Vice-President of Research
Boris Vukovic Member Carleton University Director, READ Initiative (Research, Education, Accessibility, and Design); Adjunct Research Professor, School of Industrial Design, Carleton University; Adjunct Professor in Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University
Holly Witteman Member Université Laval Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair in Human-Centred Digital Health